Self-Hosted Trading Bot for Coinbase and Alpaca
A developer shared a trading bot you can run on your own computer. It connects to Coinbase and Alpaca without sending your secret API keys to external servers.
Many automated trading services require you to give them your exchange API keys, which can be a security risk. This new project solves that by being entirely self-hosted, meaning the software runs locally on your own machine. It currently works with Coinbase for cryptocurrency and Alpaca for stocks. This design ensures that your sensitive passwords never leave your control while you automate your trades.
Key points
Quick term guide
- compute
- The server power and chips needed to run AI systems.
- API keys
- Secret codes that let one app or service access another service.
- API key
- A private code that lets a service know which account is using it.
- server
- A computer that stores files and shares them with other devices in your home.
- self-hosted
- Run on your own server instead of managed by another company.
- self-host
- To run a website, app, or service on your own server instead of using a hosted provider.
- locally
- Running on your own computer or server instead of a remote company server.
- cryptocurrency
- Digital money that uses encryption to keep transactions secure and runs without a central bank.